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But the death of a great mage, who has many times in his life walked on the dry steep hillsides of death's kingdom, is a strange matter: for the dying man goes not blindly, but surely, knowing the way.
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The author is not impartial. Dystopia is not tragedy.
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Como odia uno a un pais, o lo ama? Tibe habla de eso; yo no soy capaz. Conozco gente, conozco ciudades, granjas, montanas y rios y piedras, conozco como se pone el sol en otono del lado de un cierto campo arado en las colinas; pero ?Que sentido tiene encerrar todo en una frontera, darle un nombre y dejar de amarlo donde el nombre cambia? ?Que es el amor al propio pais? ?el odio a lo que no es el propio pais? Nada bueno. ?Solo amor propio? B..
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There's a point, around age twenty," Bedap said, "when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities."
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the good cat with bad paws. The paws get him into trouble and cause loud shouting and scoldings and seizures and removals, which the good cat endures with patient good humor--" What are they carrying on about? I didn't knock that over. A paw did." There used to be a lot of small delicate things on shelves around the house. There aren't now."
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Se puteau da jos foi dupa foi de pe o ceapa si totusi sa nu apara nimic altceva decat tot ceapa.
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The imagination is an essential tool of the mind, a fundamental way of thinking, an indispensable means of becoming and remaining human. We
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Time says "Let there be" every moment and instantly there is space and the radiance of each bright galaxy. And eyes beholding radiance. And the gnats' flickering dance.
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time
death
life
love
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Honorifics and meaningless ritual phrases of greeting, leave-taking, permission-asking, and false gratitude, please, thank you, you're welcome, goodbye, fossil relics of primitive hypocrisy--all were stumbling blocks to truthfulness between producer-consumers.
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Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting ... Instead of seeing birth as an awakening from blank nonbeing and fetal incompletion into the child's fullness of being, and seeing maturity as a narrowing, impoverishing journey toward blank death, [Wordsworth's] ode proposes that a soul enters life forgetting its eternal being, can remember it throughout life only in intimations and moments of revelation, and will recall and rejoin it fully only..
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It is a terrible thing, this kindness that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have. We who are so rich, so full of strength, we end up with that small change.
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Ozgurluk agir bir yuktur, ruhun yuklenmesi gereken buyuk ve garip bir sorumluluk. Kolay degildir. Verilen bir armagan degil, yapilan bir secimdir; bu secim de zor bir secim olabilir.
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While I'm reading a story I want to be able to suspend disbelief; the more questions of authorial reliability force themselves on me, the weaker the hold of the narrative. This is a naive approach to fiction, granted, but a tough one, since intellect, cleverness, charm, wit, tact, even fact cannot conceal incredibility.
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All her life she had looked into dark; but this was a vaster darkness, this night on the ocean. There was no end to it. There was no roof. It went out beyond the stars.
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An early visitor described a Veksi village as "five big houses full of women swearing at each other and fourteen little houses full of men sulking."
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In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it.
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falcon-winged, falcon-mad, like an unfalling arrow, like an unforgotten thought.
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They were my age, but we'd reached our age by different roads. What
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The unknown," said Faxe's soft voice in the forest, "the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought. Unproof is the ground of action. If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. No Handdara, no Yomesh, no hearthgods, nothing. But also if it were proven that there is a God, there would be no religion. . . . Tell me, Genry, what is known? What is sure, predictable, inevit..
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He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary. In a human sacrifice to deity there might be at least a mistaken and terrible beauty; in the rites of the moneychangers, where greed, laziness, and envy were assumed to move all men's acts, even the terrible became ..
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Wold felt sorry for him, as he often did for young men, who have not seen how passion and plan over and over are wasted, how their lives and acts are wasted between desire and fear.
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No sirve de nada tener una respuesta cuando la pregunta esta equivocada.
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Solo una pregunta tiene respuesta, Genry, y ya conocemos la respuesta... La vida es posible solo a causa de esa permanente e intolerable incertidumbre: no conocer lo que vendra
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Lord Berosty rem ir Ipe came to Thangering Fastness and offered forty beryls and half the year's yield from his orchards as the price of a Foretelling, and the price was acceptable. He set his question to the Weaver Odren, and the question was, On what day shall I die?
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But I'm not going to stand up on a gravestone and look down on life and say, 'O lovely!
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Take care, Tenar," he said."
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Farei meu relatorio como se contasse uma historia, pois quando crianca aprendi, em meu planeta natal, que a Verdade e uma questao de imaginacao. O fato mais concreto pode fraquejar ou triunfar no estilo da narrativa: como a joia organica singular de nossos mares, cujo brilho aumenta quando determinada mulher a usa e, usada por outra, torna-se opaca e perde o valor. Fatos nao sao mais solidos, coerentes, perfeitos e reais do que perolas. Mas..
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Oh Lavinia, Lavinia, you are worth ten Camillas. And I never saw it.
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Sacrifice might be demanded of the individual, but never compromise: for though only the society could give security and stability, only the individual, the person, had the power of moral choice--the power of change, the essential function of life.
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Bence bugun cogu insan, dile getirmeseler bile, tevazuu bir erdem olarak goruyor ve hayatinda tevazua yer veriyor. Gunluk sohbetleri, marangozlarin birlikte calisirken, sekreterlerin molalarda konusurken, birlikte icen veya yemek yiyen insanlarin ilgi konulari ve bildikleri uzerine gundelik konusmalarini dusunuyorum ve bu tur durumlarda tevazuun olcut sayildigi fikrindeyim. Arabami nasil ucuza kapattim, suraya ne seyahat yaptim, muthis seks..
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ursula-leguin
wild-girls
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To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven. -- CHUANG TSE : XXIII
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Pero tan inevitablemente como el futuro se convierte en pasado, el pasado se convierte en futuro. Renegar del pasado no es triunfar.
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One keeps oneself neat out of mere decency mere sanity, awareness of other people. And finally even that goes, and one dribbles unashamed.
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life
serenity
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Little children are stoical. They cry over bumps, but they take the big things as they come, they don't whine like so many adults.
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I don't know. I love the idea of democracy, the hope, yes, I love that. I couldn't live without that. But the country? You mean the thing on the map, lines, everything inside the lines is good and nothing outside them matters? How can an adult love such a childish idea?
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Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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Dunya hep yenidir, kokleri ne kadar eski de olsa.
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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And I did nothing, nothing but try to hide from the horror of dying." He stopped, for saying the truth aloud was unendurable. It was not shame that stopped him, but fear, the same fear. He knew now why this tranquil life in sea and sunlight on the rafts seemed to him like an after-life or a dream, unreal. It was because he knew in his heart that reality was empty: without life or warmth or color or sound: without meaning. There were no heig..
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Life rises out of death, death rises out of life, in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and are forever reborn. And with them all is reborn, the flower of the apple tree, the light of the stars.
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death
life
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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The unconscious mind is coextensive with the universe.
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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We came, Takver thought, from a great distance to each other. We have always done so. Over great distances, over years, over abysses of chance. It is because he comes from so far away that nothing can separate us. Nothing, no distances, no years, can be greater than the distance that's already between us, the distance of our sex, the differences of our being, our minds; that gap, that abyss which we bridge with a look, with a touch, with a ..
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time
love
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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A promise is a direction taken, a self-limitation of choice. As Odo pointed out, if no direction is taken, if one goes nowhere, no change will occur. One's freedom to choose and to change will be unused, exactly as if one were in jail, a jail of one's own building, a maze in which no one way is better than any other.
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freedom
inspirational-attitude
change
carpe-diem
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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Bana gorulmeye deger bir sey gostermemi soylemistin. Ben de sana, seni gosterdim.
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